Progressive exerciser



H. w. TITUS PROGRESSIVE EXERCISER Filed March 13, 1923 IN VENTOR ATTORNE Y Patented May 19, 1925.

HENRY w. T-ITUS, or new. YORK. N- SIQNQB Q- it- WEIMA?" NEW YQBK- roaassive EXER IS B- Appl ication filed 13, Serial No, 62%,712.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, :HENRY W. TITUs, a citizen of the United States, andresident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county,

6 and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Progressive Exercisers, of which the following is thespecification,

The device, the subject of this invention is an exerciser, or moreparticularly, a handle therefor.

The type of exerciser referred to, is that wherein certain elasticmembers are arranged between suitable handles and are expanded andcontracted by the movement of the muscles of the body.

Exercisers of this type are usually provided with a number of elasticmembers, the number varying from three or four to ten or more and theseelastic members are adapted to be employed successively orsimultaneously, or, in the past practice, the number of elastic membersis increased to increase the load, the increase of load being made bysecuring additional elastic member to the handle.

The principal object of this invention, then, is to provide a handlewherein the means for securing the elastic members may be so arranged asto retain the elastic members separated, to prevent interference between adjacent members and to obviate the possibility of chafing and tolengthen the life and utility of the elastic members, causing them tooperate along straight parallel lines. The objects, then, are, briefly,to overcome the objectionable features inherent in the exercisers atpresent in use.

The following is what I consider the best means of carrying out thisinvention and the accompanying drawing should be referred to for acomplete understanding of the specification which follows.

In the drawing Fig. 1, is a plan view of an exerciser having twostrands.

Fig. 2, is a side elevation of one handlemember and elastic memberssecured thereto.

Fig. 3, is a perspective view of a handle member and modifiedconstruction, and

Fig. 4, a perspective view of a handle member and a still furthermodified construction.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures wherethey appear.

At 5, 6 and Y, I show elastic members. In some exercisers, springs areused, but as elastic cable is, by all means most common, l have shownand will describe my invent-ion as operating therewith.

At each end of the cable members, metallic members 8 and 9 are secured,which are thimble clamps and engaging these clamping members are shortspring members as shown at 10 and 11, each serve no other purpose thanthat of receiving and retaining the elastic member and supplying a hookas shown at 12 and 13 for securing the elastic members to the handledevice. A suitable clamp may be provided as shown at 14: and will assurethat the hook 12 or 13 does not become detached from the handle member.

All parts thus far described are of common, well-known construction andare here included only for the purpose of showing and describing thecomplete device.

In the past, it has been common to produce a single wire member as shownat 15 in Fig. 1, providing this wire member with a plurality of loops oreyes 16 and because of the limited width, it was only found possible toproduce five eyes, 16, in the progressive ten strand exerciser, twoelastic members 6 or 7 were secured to each eye. This resulted infriction, awkward appearance, considerable chafing and an angulardisposition of the elastic member, with the result that this member wearthrough or out.

In my device, I have provided a second wire member as shown at 17, alsoprovided with plurality of eyes as shown at 18 and I have produced anoff-set as shown at 19 and 20 in each wire member, which retains theeyes 1618 away from each other, with the result that each elastic memberis en tirely independent and is free to move in the eye to which it isattached and to assume any position in relation to their elasticmembers, that it may be required to assume in the operation of. thedevice.

It will be noted that the ends of the wire members 1517 are caused toapproach each other and are introduced into a grip 21, which may be ofwood or any other suitable material.

The device shown in Fig. 3, is formed of sheet metal and may be ofintegral forma- 'tion, the grip 22 being tubular and the pro]ectingmembers 23 and 24, in which per forations or eyes 25-26 are produced arearranged on diverging planes.

In the device shown in Fig. 4, a handle or grip member 27 may be of woodor other suitable material, the projections 28 and 29 of the plate 30may be stamped from a fiat sheet, the plate 31 secured thereto and bothof the plates 30 and 31 provided with perforations or eyes as shown at82 and 33.

Other modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claims,without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages ofthe invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention, what 1 claim anddesire to obtain is g 1. A handle for exercisers comprising a grip, aplurality of wire members arranged therein, a plurality of eyes in eachof said wire members and off-sets in each of said wire members saidoffsets impinging one upon the other to retain said eyes away from eachother.

2. In a handle for exercisers comprising a grip, a plurality ofprojecting members extending therefrom and at an angle to each othereyes in each said projecting member to which the cables of the exerciserare adapted to be secured and means for retaining said eyes away fromeach other and for retaining parallel and adjacent cables, out ofcontact with each other.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 1st day of March,1923.

HENRY W. TITUS.

